Podcast Contributors

Tristan Beach is a native of Washington State. He has a BA in English from Saint Martin’s University and is currently pursuing an MFA at Goddard College. He is an Associate Editor at Pitkin Review and has held internships at Copper Canyon Press and Coffee House Press. He enjoys film noir, jazz, racy poetry, and coffee art.  (Guest: Episode 5)

Jasmine Cronin-Georgiadi is the managing editor of Travel Tales (travel-tales.com), an e-zine that will be launched in April of 2013 and features travel stories written by adventurers from all over the globe.  She has served as a film script consultant and manuscript reader for clients in London, New York and Los Angeles.  Her writing has appeared in publications such as Brides Noir, World Bride Magazine and The Honolulu Advertiser, among others.  She earned a B.A. in English and Theater from Bowdoin College, and she is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program at Goddard College.  She has a base in Honolulu, but spends the majority of her life living out of suitcases.  She also writes a blog entitled The Irreverent Adventuress (irreverent-adventuress.com).  (Guest: Episode 8)

James R. Gapinski is a fiction editor at The Pitkin Review, and his writing has appeared in publications such as Burdock Magazine, Oak Bend Review, Line Zero, and Eunoia Review.  James is a recipient of the Angela Peckenpaugh Writing Award and the Burrows Award.  He holds a BSE in English from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and he is earning an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.  He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and two cats.  (Host: Recurring)

Summer Graef is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Pitkin Review and an MFA student at Goddard College.  Summer lives in Bellingham, Washington where she writes and edits.  In her most recent project, Summer edited a collaborative manuscript by an writer and therapist entitled In A Cradle of Words: Intimate Encounters in Relational Therapy. (Guest: Episode 5)

Keith Gaustad is the editor and founder of Burdock Magazine and Teppichfresser Press.  This June he'll be releasing Burdock 11 as part of the Midwest Small Press Fest.  When not actively engaged with the poetry scene he's playing shows with the Polka/Hip Hop band The November Criminals.  (Guest: Episode 2 / Host: Episode 4)

Edwin R. Perry is proprietor of Plumberries Press.  He lives, at the time of this submission, at the Laundry Chute in Milwaukee but is quite reverent of his roots in Michigan. His work as appeared in Sawbuck, Oysters & Chocolate, Ox Mag, Burdock, and others.  (Guest: Episode 7)

Uma Sankaram holds an MA in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College in New York, and an MS in Clinical Psychology from Pacific University.  She is currently a doctoral candidate at Pacific University.  Uma is an avid reader with an expansive personal library.  Uma appreciates the written word, even though her own communication abilities are mostly limited to squeaks, growls, and other random noises.  (Host: Episodes 1, 3, 6, & 8)

Cynthia Spencer is not quite a crusader.  She began building fortresses out of cardboard and was eventually driven through by her own sword.  She hails from New Jersey and currently lives in Milwaukee, WI.  Her chapbook, In What Sequence Will my Parts Exit, is available by Plumberries Press.  (Guest: Episode 4)

Christi R. Suzanne changes her hairstyle and hair color a lot, she is a writer who grew up in the dry heat of the Arizona desert.  She moved to the Pacific Northwest over ten years ago for a mistier climate and now resides in Oregon.  By day she works at a university as a web and communications professional.  On her off hours she spends her time writing, playing soccer, and reading.  She holds a bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and a Master's in Technical Writing from Portland State University.  She is currently working on a novella and other short pieces. (Guest: Episode 6)

Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson writes about absence, usually in terms of the apocalypse.  Her work has appeared in many places including A cappella Zoo, The Literary Review of Canada, Menacing Hedge, Going Down Swinging, Labletter, EDGE, and the anthology Killer Verse.  (Guest: Episode 1)

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is pursuing her MFA in creative writing through Goddard College as well as teaching creative writing at Seattle Central Community College.  She is the communications associate at the Frye Art Museum and editor in chief of the Pitkin Review. She is co-organizer of a reading series at the Richard Hugo House.  She stays up late and gets up early in order to focus on her own writing. Sometimes that is why it ends up so short.  (Guest: Episode 5)